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It has been a long wait since the announcement back in June. And now the iOS5 is here ! While the iphone 4s is on the way, if you owned and Iphone 4 or Ipad or whatever, you can start playing with the new iOS5 now.

This update contains over 200 new features, including the following:

• Notifications
• iMessage
• Newsstand
• Reminders for managing to do lists
• Built-in support for Twitter
• Camera improvements for devices with cameras
• Photo improvements for devices with cameras
• Mail improvements
• Calendar improvements
• Game Center improvements
• AirPlay Mirroring for iPad 2 and iPhone 4S
• Multitasking Gestures for iPad
• On-device setup, activation and configuration with Setup Assistant
• Software updates available over the air without tethering
• iCloud support
• Redesigned Music app for iPad
• Hourly weather forecast
• Real-time stock quotes
• Wireless sync to iTunes
• Keyboard improvements
• Accessibility improvements
• Exchange ActiveSync improvements
• More than 1,500 new developer APIs
• Bug fixes

Products compatible with this software update:
• iPhone 4S
• iPhone 4
• iPhone 3GS
• iPad 2
• iPad
• iPod touch (4th generation)
• iPod touch (3rd generation)

This is a common issue when you install Windows on a Macbook Pro laptop. Some or all of the function key on your keyboard will not work such as brightness, volume and the FN key.

Solution:

After your Windows installation process completed. Boot up your windows, pop in your Mac CD and choose to install BootCamp. Yes BootCamp is the keyword here, this is all you need to make your function to work again.

Additional Notes:

If the key is still not working after you have installed the BootCamp. Try going into the BootCamp installation holder and start it manually. Example: “C:\Program Files\Boot Camp\KbdMgr.exe” , double click the KbdMgr.exe once. You should see a new icon appeared in your task bar.

BootCamp Icons:

Some Vista’s Wireless connection lag every 60 secs or 30 secs, it is because the Vista’s build-in wireless software try to look for a better connection every minutes. You can fix this by installing a tool called Vista Anti-Lag. This tool is free so you might want to give it a try.

This bug is not really significant to feel it in normal web browsing but can be very annoying in online game such as World of Warcraft. The tool may or may not work for you. A wired connection should solve this problem.

Interface of Vista Anti-lag

You may come across that windows force you to create an extra account during the initial setup. Then you try to delete it but cannot find any delete option. To force windows to remove the extra account you can go to Start -> Run and type in “control userpasswords2” without the quote and hit Enter. It will bring up a User Accounts window and you should be able to delete it from there.

Advanced User Account Control Panel

When you cant play a video file, often is that you do not have the right decoder / codec for it. For example Real, DIVX and others format required their own decoder to watch them properly. I have tried this tool Storm and it works perfectly for me. Just install this player and you can play all video format (atleast I have not run into any problem yet).

One of the neat feature is when you open a video file it will automaticaly add all the relavant episods into the play list. However this program is in chinese only, I dunno if there is an english version for it.

You can download version 3.6 here: www.baofeng.com

No ads crack – Download (Tested on version 3.6. Please use at your own risk)

Sometimes you want to resize a dozen of pictures and found that it is so troublesome to do it 1 by 1. Forget about big software such as Photoshop or GIMP, here is a simple way to get it done quickly and free. 

1. First download IrfanView from http://www.irfanview.net/ and install it.

2. Launch the program and choose File -> Batch Conversion/Rename…

3. Select your original image and click “Add” into your Input files list. Set your output directory and select the “Options” and “Advanced” button to adjust your batch settings.

4. “Options”: Select your image output quality, generally “80″ quality plus 1024 width resolution images will get you image sizes around 80 to 200kb. 

5. “Advances”: Select RESIZE and Set long side to 1024, asuming you want to resize to 1024 pixel. Remember to check the “Preserve aspect ratio” so that it will resize the heigh for you automatically based on the given width. Play around with different figures to find out what best suite your needs.

6. Click ok and then run “Start Batch”. Your resized images will be done in a few seconds.

Here comes another good software from Google – Google Web Browser ! After installed and have a run, outstanding ! It feels really smooth and light.

After the installation, it let you choose where to import your data such as IE, Firefox etc. It works preatty much the same as FIrefox but lighter and slimmer. The interface is clean and neat which gives more space for web content.

However, Google chrome does not support plugin (soon perhaps). If you like plugins might as well still stay with Firefox until plugins feature is supported in Chrome.

Google Chrome Home Page

Google Browser - Chrome

Google Talk default installation does not allow users to set their online status. Your friends will always know when you are idle or active. There is a tool called  galwaysidle to solve this problem. After you have installed it, you will be able to set your online status such as Always Active, Always Idle or the normal way.

After the installation, right click your google talk icon at the taskbar and you will see something like this:

Recently I have tried 2 pinyin program for windows. Its really help to type faster compared to the default Microsoft pinyin. They are pretty smart with the words combination.

They are easy easy to use and install, just download it and install it and you are done. Press alt + Shift (may be different, check your language settings) to switch between English or Pinyin input.

Google Pinyin, plain and simple.

Sougou Pinyin, with many themes to play with.

Sometimes you may want to match a color in your design or configuration but it is very hard to figure out what is the color code. With ColorPic, you can easily retrieve color codes by pointing your mouse arrow to anywhere on your monitor.